One suitcase and one piece of hand luggage—sounds like a leisurely holiday trip. Don’t you agree? Yet this—and nothing more—is precisely what the approximately 10,000 children took with them when they were brought to safety in Great Britain between early December 1938 and September 1, 1939, from the countries occupied by the National Socialists: Austria, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia.
In collaboration with exhibition curator Milli Segal, the exhibition “Für das Kind” (*For the Child*) presents the touring exhibition of the same name by British artists Rosie Potter and Patricia Ayre; it shines a spotlight on children from Wiener Neustadt and their families, and explores the question of just how vital children’s rights are—especially today.
The exhibition is now till end of June at the Museum St. Peter am der Sperr, Wiener Neustadt Austria and will be also at Landesmuseum Klagenfurt (Carinthia, Austria) from May 9 till July 2026.